NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI is set to $HOME when executing scripts from desktop

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? That works fine for me. I just tried with that code:
"#!/bin/bash
zenity --title "NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" --info --text "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI""

the URI displayed has the Desktop directory mentionned. Do you use the option to have your user directory as desktop? Note that the nautilus-open-terminal package would probably be appropriate to do that

I use Dapper 6.06 (dist-upgraded from 5.10).

> Do you use the option to have your user directory as desktop?

What option are you referring to exactly ? I don't recall changing
such a setting ... but
maybe its an old setting from a previous version of Ubuntu (I think I
dist-upgraded twice without flushing /home).

Also, I do have a home directory seperate from the Desktop directory,
they are "/home/my_username" and "/home/my_username/Desktop"
respectively.

> Note that the nautilus-open-terminal package would probably be appropriate to do that

Thanks for the suggestion ! (But I have a bunch of other scripts for
which it is still a bit annoying like "Search Here", "Recursive Disk
Usage", etc.)

Thanks for your time !

2006/6/15, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>:
> Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? That works fine for me. I just tried with that code:
> "#!/bin/bash
> zenity --title "NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" --info --text "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI""
>
> the URI displayed has the Desktop directory mentionned. Do you use the
> option to have your user directory as desktop? Note that the nautilus-
> open-terminal package would probably be appropriate to do that
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Untriaged => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI is set to $HOME when executing scripts from desktop
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/49767
>

Le jeudi 15 juin 2006 à 12:43 +0000, Nicolas Maquet a écrit :

> What option are you referring to exactly ?

gconf-editor, /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir key

Mmmhh... I have the weirdest thing : I tried your zenity script and it works !

Displays "file:///home/username/Desktop" as expected.

Apparently its my script whose buggy :

#!/bin/bash
cd $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI
exec gnome-terminal

But it works for every single directory I tried.... *except* ~/Desktop
Can someone try it on his desktop to see if it does the same ?
I'll look into it tomorrow.

Your script has a bug - a URI is not the same as a directory.
cd file:///home/user/Desktop
is not the same as:
cd /home/user/Desktop
"cd" is an old skool program that knows not of URIs. Use some sed in there and it'll work:

#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --working-directory=$(echo $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI | sed 's!file://!!g')

Thanks for your advice, I wondered about that. The only thing I can't
figure out now is why does the above script in all situations *but*
the ~/Desktop case. When I find out I'll post it here.

Nautilus works fine, you ask for an URI you get one, closing the bug as rejecting since that's not one. Feel free to reopen if you disagree